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Der Bayer

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Post Sat Jul 13, 2013 1:41 am

Re: Weight distribution

"Perfect" depends on what you want to build. You wouldn't want 50:50 on an everyday car, which should be easy to drive.
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Post Wed Jul 17, 2013 8:55 pm

Re: Weight distribution

Der Bayer wrote:Let's take a 1500 kg car, weight distribution 60:40 (900 kg front, 600 kg rear).

Let's move the battery (10kg) back: 890 kg front, 610 kg rear -> distribution 59.3:40.7

Sure, it makes a minor difference, but I doubt it's worth the effort.


In my opninion, that's quite a difference! On a 1000kg car this could be very interesting to change.

Der Bayer wrote:"Perfect" depends on what you want to build. You wouldn't want 50:50 on an everyday car, which should be easy to drive.


My daily driver is a BMW E46 with a 50/50 weight distribution, and I like that every day :D
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Post Wed Jul 17, 2013 9:31 pm

Re: Weight distribution

Perfect also depends on the load. You would not want 50:50 on unloaded pick-up.
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Post Thu Jul 18, 2013 2:26 pm

Re: Weight distribution

Kubboz wrote:Perfect also depend on the load. You would not want 50:50 on unloaded pick-up.


Indeed not! You'd want it as light as possible at the back, so it still handles OK with 1000kg or so in the back.
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